Kingdom of the Burgundians

The Kingdom of the Burgundians was a Germanic kingdom in the Rhineland and Savoy which existed from 411 to 534 AD, with Lugdunum (Lyon) serving as its capital. In 406, the Burgundii settled as foederati in the Roman province of Germania Secunda along the Middle Rhine. In 411, King Gunther of the Burgundii and King Goar of the Alans set up Jovinus as a puppet emperor of Rome, and the tribe settled on the western bank of the Rhine, making Borbetomagus (Worms) their capital. In 436, the Roman general Flavius Aetius called in Hun mercenaries, who overwhelmed the kingdom in 437 and killed Gunther and most of the Burgundians. In 443, Aetius resettled the remaining Burgundians in Savoy as foederati, and they established their caoital at Lugdunum. In 451, King Gunderic fought alongside Aetius against the Huns at the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, and, upon Gunderic's death in 473, the kingdom was divided. Beginning in 523 AD, King Clovis I and the Franks began to invade the Burgundian kingdom, which was conquered following the Battle of Autun in 532 AD. It was absorbed into Francia.